Right now I am using the Planets theme, its offering me quite a good mix of image and transparency, though I think I may settle on the Shiny theme or some other theme that resembes a normal Google blank page.

Anyone else seeing this at all? To see, go to your Gmail settings page, and look for the “Themes” tab.

Edit: This is only showing on my Gmail account, not my Google Apps account at the moment, so it appears its a gradual rollout (I have give me beta stuff turned on in Apps)

I think it was this: 55, 109, 155, 243 (give ±20 in the latter two). Not bad for my first time playing, and not as Si, no, I must represent Techious so my name was TCHS in the games. Oh yes, and not last for any of the games! (First one last bar one, but meh, I still like).

In other news, I gave a really bad presentation embarasing Techious for all it’s worth, well I needed to give a presentation on something technical I’d done. Technical, umm Techious yes that works! Anyway I’ll try attaching it as a PDF to see if this system allows it.

Coding is becoming more interesting, I’m currently writing an over the top method for my latest coursework, I’m sure theres easier methods, just mine works for lols!

This is about it

Attachment: Techious Presentation

Enjoy the comment spam Skillers

Now really, this is really stupid. Personally, I think that people who do this should be banned from driving for ages, not that that will stop them. Some people just don’t care.

A £10,000 new car?!?!? What the fuck?!?! Why on earth would someone be that stupid? I mean come on, if I had a new car like that I wouldn’t mistreat it like that at all. Going to Bristol Magistrates now, I really think that is when you know that you are in some shit. Well, at least it’s close to the University, driving better not be an option to get there, someone else should drive there.

It’s also on the front page of the Epigram (not suprisingly), theres the link:

http://www.epigram.org.uk/view.php?id=2835

I’m not going to comment much more on this but hey, doesn’t show our Uni in too good a light now does it

Anyway, incase anyone actually is listening, well reading, this is what the last month has really been like. Great. That’s it, but yeah I’m sure more details are requested than that, so I will give you some of them.

Lectures, have still remained interesting, this is very good, cos I was concerned that even thought the first week was good, they would start getting dull and not very interesting, luckily they have remained to still be very interesting, which I am very glad of. I have learned quite a lot and unlike Sixth Form which basically was a bit boring at times, all these lectures have remained interesting to me, as it is all stuff I am genuinely interested in, which should be helpful when it comes to exams, because I’m really interested I should naturally work harder to learn more, just to help fix my morbid curiosity over such things
Apart from lectures, well we’re starting a little pool tourney type thing with a couple of people in my flat, it will be fun if we can ever deceide on when to do this properly. So far I’m second with a 50% win rate, someone has 100% and another 0%. Well, from 2 games each, those are the only possible outcomes so yeah, maybe we will all do better later once it gets to the 20 or 30 games played each stage, and umm I still only have 1 win lol.

I perhaps haven’t been going out partying or whatever as much as some other people here, or even as much as some of the people from us back at school, but the way I am seeing it, really is that the most important part about Uni, getting pissed each night so blindingly drunk that you cannot remember anything that has happened the night before, and other stuff like that. But hey, I’m having fun doing what I am, if life is about enjoying yourself (which it is) surely it doesn’t matter what the things you are doing are (unless its illegal in which case thats bad), I am enjoying myself, if people don’t like it, then they don’t like it.

I have noticed that University seems to be the one place where the credit crunch really hasn’t hit people. I suppose this is because as students we are screwed and poor anyway, so being more poor doesn’t really affect us. Maybe we’ll sell the big issue, because there seem to be alot more of those people areound these days, and they’re getting more clever, hanging round near ATM machines and stuff.

I haven’t completely blown all my student loan yet. No, not entirely just most of it, so far my text book bill has gone up to about £250, and a couple of those books are just for the first semester, when Week 13 comes, I’ll need more. All I can say is thank fuck for the student discount that there has been at Waterstones for the past month, cos that really has helped. Also, thanks to the NUS Extra Card, 5% off at Amazon also helps a little. I hope I don’t have to spend too much more on text books, otherwise I will need to start magically finding money in places to help pay for them, and yes I know Skillers, I still need to magically make some money for Techious, but I’m sure we can find a way of getting some!!!

That is the main bits of what has been going on, I will try and post more regurally on this now but would help if stuff works round here.

Anyway, work is calling, dammit

¹ Trazillion by this definition equates to 162.

But hey, it was amazing, though we left at about half an hour before closing because we felt we had enjoyed alot, and yeah we had, it was flipping amazing.

I’m tired and well cba to write too much more, I can’t just word it properly, but here we go, the gallery picture thingymabobby:

Ooh, magic link.

But yeah, woo awesome week of first lectures and stuff, still the basics, but I’m finding that really, I’m getting very interested in everything that I kinda lost the interest in for a while, but here everything seems all new, even if it’s not so it’s all awesome and stuff

Tuesday was lectures and tutorial, Wednesday was more lectures, Thursday was a couple and the “Introduction to Oscilloscope Skills” Lab, so we got to play with some nice new shiny stuff <3 I suppose it will come in useful at a later stage when I need to build circuits and stuff, which I will be doing soon building a security system, well a rudimentary one. Should be fun playing with assembly code and stuff Friday was just more lectures to wind down the week.17

This week I have had 3 9 o’clock wake ups. Unfortuantly this increases to 4 in 2 weeks when one of my other lectures start, so it will be a battle, me versus sleep, but hey more interesting, as long as I don’t sleep through my lectures, which I doubt would happen with them being this interesting.

Tonight is the Fresher’s ball, which is going to be awesome, even though it is like a 300 mile trek to the student union building, £20 the ticket cost, but I’m sure that it will be worth it, the entire student union building just to us, with chocolate fountains and stuff… we’ll I’ll leave that to another post when I get back…

This weekend, is basically just relaxing and reading some stuff in the text books I have bought already, and waiting for more to arrive, and other stuff like that basically. Anyway, as long as things stay as they are Uni should be great!

Right, I need to get ready

Already bought one text book out of six trillion and submitted my first piece of coursework already, “write a script that does Hello, World!” now come on that isn’t particuraly difficult now is it?!? If I don’t get 100% on that I will be shocked.

Well, thats one day of stuff, I thankfully have an 11 o’clock start tommorow instead of 9, which should be good, and I also get to meet my tutor (twice, hes my first lecturer tommorow) which should be interesting.

Now for more TF2…